Evolution and inheritance teaching pack

Last updated: 15/11/2023
Contributor: Simon
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Full of brightly illustrated PowerPoint presentations and resources, Evolution and inheritance will help your year 5 and 6 children discover how the planet came to be populated with such weird and wonderful living things!

Beginning with the question ‘What is evolution?, the pack looks at adaptation in animals and plants and ends by asking ‘What is extinction?’.

From dinosaur-like lizards to carnivorous plants, this pack has plenty to engage and excite!

What's included?

  • 17 supporting resources
  • includes introductory activities, main teaching points, plenaries, assessment opportunities, extension ideas and home learning tasks
  • links to the curriculum.

What's inside?

Session 1: What is evolution? (pages 1-5)

  • Teaching sequence
  • What is evolution?
  • Sorting life into kingdoms game

Session 2: What causes evolution? (pages 6-14)

  • Teaching sequence
  • What causes evolution?
  • The evolution game
  • The evolution of sport game

Session 3: The timescale of evolution (pages 15-21)

  • Teaching sequence
  • The order of evolution
  • Getting to know Charles Darwin

Session 4: What is adaptation? Animal viewpoint (pages 22-32)

  • Teaching sequence
  • Non-chronological reports – text analysis
  • Shark facts – turning notes into a report
  • Animal adaptation research framework
  • Animal adaptation fact cards

Session 5: What is adaptation? Plant perspective (pages 33-36)

  • Teaching sequence
  • Amazing plant adaptations

Session 6: What is extinction? (pages 37-40)

  • Teaching sequence
  • Where have all the dinosaurs gone?
  • What are fossils?
  • Become a palaeontologist
  • Forest Magazine article
  • Evolution and inheritance quiz
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19/08/2020

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15/07/2020

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20/05/2020

A really great resource.

Jonathan Pearce

27/07/2015

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19/08/2020

5

15/07/2020

5

20/05/2020

A really great resource.

Jonathan Pearce

27/07/2015

A truly superb resource. Thank you.

16/06/2014

I have just started using the pack and I am really impressed. The bright powerpoints have generated lots of discussion in the class. Teaching in Scotland I struggled last year to find things to meet the CfE Es and Os for Biological Systems. I wish I had this wonderful resource to use then! Highly recommend!

02/06/2014

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